The sweet creations were designed and decorated by 27-year-old Vicki Smith after she was made redundant.A talented baker makes cakes so life-like they look as if they should move.The sweet creations, made of sponge and icing, were designed and decorated by 27-year-old Vicki Smith from North Wales.One of her most striking pieces is a cake based on Angelina Jolie in her recent film Maleficent.Vicki has turned a variety of characters into cakes, including Finding Nemo, Betty Boop, the Corpse Bride and Wallace and Gromit.She started baking in 2011 after being left disappointed by a cake that arrived for her lorry driver boyfriend’s 27th birthday.She said: “I ordered a lorry cake for him and when it arrived it wasn’t what I thought it would be and I wasn’t happy with it."I had a go at doing it myself and when I took the cake to the restaurant everybody liked it. That was when I realised this was something I could do.“I just took it from there. I did one for myself and I did one for my mum and dad and I kept getting compliments. People really liked the cakes I was producing but I was just doing it as a hobby really.”After being made redundant from her job as a ceramic artist in April, 2014 Vicki began to concentrate on turning her talents into a business.She now has a string of awards under her belt for her creations.She scooped three gold awards for her amazing creations at last year’s Cake International competition in Birmingham.
       She spent more than 150 painstaking hours crafting three special cakes for the contest. The masterpiece was a four foot cake of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent which was made from cake and Rice Krispies and also features a flashing staff. It took Vicki 85 hours to create and it weighed in at a whopping 55kg.She also created a tiger cub which took 45 hours to make. It won gold and first place in the sculpted novelty cake category.Vicki also scooped a gold and second place in the wedding cake (three tiers or more) category with an impressive three-tiered creation based on the Corpse Bride films.For all her cakes, she begins by sketching an image of the cake design on to a board and chooses a variety of tin sizes to suit it - before baking around 15 to 20 smaller, individual cakes.She then sandwiches the bits of cake together using jam or butter cream, carefully carves them with a knife and finally starts the lengthy process of decorating the entire cake.Vicki said: “The turtle one is probably my favourite. It won gold at Cake International in Manchester in 2013 and went on to get the best marks out of all the cakes in the competition. A lot of people who have seen the cake said it was so real they almost thought it would walk off the table.”The designer said she had always had a keen eye for detail and added: “My teachers were always impressed by my intricate detailing, especially in ceramics. I have an art background as I have done art all my life. I studied all types of different creative fields at Deeside College, where we looked at life drawing and sketching.”Vicki now wants to turn her hobby into a business but needs to buy a new oven to make happen.“Being unemployed makes it really difficult,” she said.She has set up a GoFundMe account for anyone who is able to donate at http://www.gofundme.com/IncredibleEdibles.

source : Mirror